# Finding Your Roots on The No Agenda Show

Finding Your Roots comes up in 3 chapters across 3 episodes of The No Agenda Show, from December 2016 to February 2024.

- **Chapters:** 3
- **Episodes:** 3
- **Discussed:** December 2016 – February 2024
- **Related topics:** [Pbs](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/pbs.md), [Slavery](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/slavery.md), [Angela Davis](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/angela-davis.md), [Ben Affleck](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/ben-affleck.md), [Genealogy](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/genealogy.md), [Henry Louis Gates Jr](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/henry-louis-gates-jr.md), [Puerto Rico](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/puerto-rico.md), [Sunny Hostin](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/sunny-hostin.md)

## Chapters 1–3 of 3

### Sunny Hostin Ancestry Reveal, Finding Your Roots

- **Episode:** [1633: Noise Machine](https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/1633-noise-machine.md)
- **Published:** 2024-02-11
- **Time:** 1:36:55–1:41:50
- **Transcript:** https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/1633-noise-machine/chapter/sunny-hostin-ancestry-reveal-finding-your-roots.md

The View co-host Sunny Hostin appeared on the PBS show "Finding Your Roots," where she discovered her ancestors were Spanish slaveholders in Puerto Rico. Hostin, who identifies as Black and has advocated for reparations, expressed shock at her deep European roots and her family's involvement in the slave trade.

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### Angela Davis Ancestry, Mayflower Discovery

- **Episode:** [1532: Bay Gin](https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/1532-bay-gin.md)
- **Published:** 2023-02-23
- **Time:** 2:54:21–2:57:37
- **Transcript:** https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/1532-bay-gin/chapter/angela-davis-ancestry-mayflower-discovery.md

Marxist activist Angela Davis discovers on the PBS show "Finding Your Roots" that she is a descendant of a passenger on the Mayflower. The segment highlights her shock at learning her ancestors were among the founders of the United States.

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### Ben Affleck, Finding Your Roots, Slave Owner Ancestry

- **Episode:** [882: Fact Check False](https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/882-fact-check-false.md)
- **Published:** 2016-12-01
- **Time:** 2:06:39–2:09:46
- **Transcript:** https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/882-fact-check-false/chapter/ben-affleck-finding-your-roots-slave-owner-ancestry.md

Leaked emails reveal that actor Ben Affleck pressured PBS producers to remove information about a slave-owning ancestor from his episode of Finding Your Roots. While the show's host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., initially resisted, the information was ultimately omitted from the broadcast. The hosts mock Affleck's selective pride in his Revolutionary War ancestry.

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